{"id":374421,"date":"2014-03-03T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T11:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/?p=374421"},"modified":"2014-03-03T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T11:15:29","slug":"cambridge-and-world-war-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/?p=374421","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge and World War I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scouring the pages of the &#8216;Cambridge Chronicle&#8217; for material for the Village Society&#8217;s November 11 presentation, I came across a letter written in September 1914, just after the outbreak of war, extolling the virtues of flannelette as opposed to flannel underwear for the troops.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The writer, J.L., noted that &#8220;the cult of flannel undergarments came in with the much advertised jaeger&#8221;. She complains that &#8220;the name has a German and discredited sound&#8221;. She herself wears cotton next to the skin by choice, as do members of her mothers&#8217; group. &#8220;Flannelette washes better and is less irritating and septic than Flannel&#8221;. Noting that &#8220;the labouring classes don&#8217;t generally wear Flannel&#8221;, she quotes an old relative who recently died aged 96, who &#8220;always wore linen next to the skin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Such concern for the comfort of British troops was admirable, though I suspect the quality of underwear was fairly low in priorities in the subsequent four years! More extracts next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scouring the pages of the &#8216;Cambridge Chronicle&#8217; for material for the Village Society&#8217;s November 11 presentation, I came across a letter written in September 1914, just after the outbreak of war, extolling the virtues of flannelette as opposed to flannel underwear for the troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}